All this talk about the train coming to New Bedford again sure sounds like a great idea, but it makes me think very hard.

Will this be another deduction added to our cost-of-living increase? The Big Dig is still digging into our personal funds because of mismanagement, overspending, abuse, greed or, as I call it, theft. This is still costing us in continued tolls on the Mass Pike and taxes per gallon that may now increase again because of the train.

How could this be? For those who will never venture out by train or take the Mass Pike but continue to buy fuel for their daily lives it just isn't fair. Just think — we pay 35 cents-plus for every 15 to 35 miles we drive our own cars, for someone else to take the tunnel, or train. We are forced again to pay for "their" mistakes, that is, the folks who are in charge of these transportation failures. We have all read or heard stories about how the Big Dig was over budget, and yet we fuel buyers pay the penalty. It's like going to jail for someone else and paying their fine for their crime. Keep in mind if you don't drive or take the train, you are paying more at the market because of shipping costs too.

Amazing to think that for each gallon of gas we buy, the transportation taxes on each gallon cost more than the whole gallon cost 35 to 40 years ago.

To suggest that the abuse will stop, I don't see how. America is in a bad situation when anything to help the needy gets abused. In this case, its the transportation needs just in Massachusetts.

In the past it's been our stimulus money, hurricane relief or whatever other disaster relief has been needed. What a country of crooks!

This is an exact example of what's wrong with our economy. Stop blaming the needy, the crooks are in the middle. Cut out the middle man and go directly to the source. We are our own worst enemy.